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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

There is a trend in the industry where Apple, Amazon, Google and others are now designing their own CPUs and GPUs, and NVIDIA has added the ARM based Grace CPU to its Hopper GPU in its latest generation. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.